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Subject: Re: [ANN] Non-standard library project
From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward () noaa ! gov>
Date: 2004-08-10 14:41:23
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.60.0408100832360.5147 () harp ! ngdc ! noaa ! gov
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 10, 2004, 12:16:06 PM, Stephen wrote:
>
>> Are you talking with this guy, yet?
>
>> batsman.geo@yahoo.com
>
> Dunno. Are we talking yet, Mauricio? :)
>
>> See his: Subject: [ANN] Preliminary Ruby Production Archive -- over
>> 100 packages available
>
>> Looks to me like everyone wants the same thing: CPAN for Ruby.
>
> I guess I didn't explain the 'nonstdlib' concept very well, then. It's
> now called 'addlib' and rooted at http://addlib.rubyforge.org.
>
> The idea of 'addlib' is to create a collection of fairly general
> libraries, not to provide a packaging/distribution mechanism for
> existing ones.
>
> For those who are interested, I'll be creating a "rough" directory in
> the CVS soon (no promises as to when :) containing the following code:
> - an Enum module (by Tim Hunter, think C's enum keyword)
> - an IO mixin for dealing with binary data (Michael Neumann's recent
> ruby-talk contribution)
> - a command-line command parser, as opposed to option parser (ripped
> from RubyGems, works nicely with optparse)
>
> That should give some idea of the nature of the project.
>
> Gavin
what kinds of things are you still looking for gavin?
-a
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